Three Things You Need to Know about Fresko
With 50-plus menu items and a buzzy downtown atmosphere, Fresko Restaurant is hard to categorize ... but easy to enjoy (with a little know-how).
Review of Fresko, 909 Locust St.; 515-630-7009; freskodsm.com
A week ago, as Mr. Sportcoat and I were getting in our car, obviously dressed for dinner, a neighbor asked where we were headed.
“Fresko,” I said.
“That’s a vegetable restaurant, isn’t it?” he asked, with no hint of envy whatsoever. (He’d just dined at a local steakhouse.)
“Not really,” I said. “It’s kind of a … um … well, they have, you know, sushi and flatbreads and tacos and pasta and lamb pita wraps and ….”
“Well, have fun!” he said, walking away dismissively and clearly confident he’d made the right choice that evening.
Alas, Fresko is a very hard to explain concept, and its full name, “Fresko Natural Foods” doesn’t really help matters. I don’t know about you, but for me, the term “natural” conjures up images of the kind of earnestly wholesome, bulgur-y, lentil-y health-food a certain kind of college roommate used to make back in the day (before such wholes…